O'Malley's

Liverpool, 1952. The city still bears the scars of war, rubble in the gutters, ration books in every pocket, gas lamps flickering against the fog. But beneath the surface of rebuilding civility, something darker stirs. At O'Malley's Pub, laughter rings a little too loud, the whiskey flows a little too freely, and secrets fester beneath the floorboards. When Janet Moore, a waitress with secrets of her own, is found brutally murdered in a nearby alley, her body marked by twelve precise stabs and clenched fingers holding a shred of evidence, Detective William Silas Walker is pulled into a vortex of corruption, blood feuds, and wartime ghosts. Janet wasn't just pouring pints, she was an undercover agent tracking contraband stolen from Albert Docks. And her death ignites a chain reaction that will leave seven more dead and threaten to burn Liverpool to the ground. Silas, a forensic detective obsessed with probability, pigeon-feeding, and ginger biscuits dipped just right in tea, must untangle a web where no one is innocent, not even the boy who loved her. With help from his constable friend Harry, pathologist Sarah Jones, and a haunting memory of his Blitz-killed mother, Silas races to stop the violence before the city drowns in its own blood. In a world where loyalty is currency and silence is survival, O'Malley's is a hardboiled elegy to justice in a city that forgot its soul.